Safety razor blade-package carrier



June 1, 1937.

s. H. BENJAMIN 2,082,440

SAFETY RAZOR BLADE PACKAGE CARRIER I Filed Dec. 10, 1935 2 Sheets-Sheet l 49 41 d "Hm. jag 5257 I 55; T 25 48 I 7 v 33 flea 2 27 1 1/1 [I gzjm June 1 1937. s, BENJAMIN v 2,082,440

SAFETY RAZOR BLADE PACKAGE CARRIER Filed Dec. 10, 1935 2 Sheets-Sheet 2 Patented June 1,1937- UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE SAFETY RAZOR BLADE-PACKAGE CARRIER I Sidney H. Benjamin, Milwaukee, Wis. Application December 10,- 1935, Serial No. 53,725

'4 Claims.

Pursuant to a requirement for division made by the Patent Omce, this application is a continuation in part of my copending application for patent, Serial Number 11,970, now Patent No. 2,048,489, filed March 20, 1935, for Safety razors, and also contains further subject matter. My invention relates to carriers for extra blades, or packages thereof, for safety razors, and refers particularly to packages of blades and a carrier'therefor especially adapted to be utilized in co-operative relation with a safety razor of the particular type. in'which there is employed a two-edge blade of normal length but of less than normal width, a compact assemblage of the 5 detached razor head with the carrier of my invention and its blade packages of my invention being specially adapted to be housed within a tubular razor handle member of normal size and length.

The blade-package carrier of my invention is of rectangular elongated flattened box-like form, having flat walls, and has a central aperture through it flatwise, this aperture being utilized for positioning the carrier in the mentioned assemblage. I

The blade package of my invention contains a single extra blade, of the kind mentioned, which has a central aperture through it, this blade being covered by a protective wrapper having a '30 central aperture through each of its opposite sides, the central aperture thus formed through the blade package being adapted to be brought into alignment with the aperture through the carrier and being utilized for positioning the blade package within the carrier and therewith in the mentioned assemblage of parts, the blade car-- tion and accompanying. drawings .of modified forms thereof, in which similar parts are, designated by similar numerals.

Figure 1 is a full sizeelevation partly in see- I tion of a safety razor with which an embodiment of my invention is adapted to be utilized in cooperative relation. Q

Figure 2 is an enlarged broken central vertical section taken in the plane of Figure 1'.

Figure 3 is a much enlarged broken vertical section on th line 3-3 of Figure 2.

Figure 4 is an enlarged plan view of a razor blade. a v

Figure 5 is a similar plan view of a razor-blade package, with the razor blade indicated in broken I lines.

Figure 61s a much more enlarged section on the line 66 of Figure 5.

Figure 7 is a plan view of a fullyopen razorblade wrapper which is adapted to form a razorblade package with a razor blade.-

Figure 8 is an enlarged perspective plan view of one form of the blade-package carrier, show as empty.

Figure 9 is an enlarged transverse section of the tubular handle of the razor, shown as housing therein an assemblage of the detached razor head with the blade-package carrier and with blade packages which fill the latter.

Figure 10 is an enlarged central flatwise longitudinal section of a modified form of the bladepackage carrier.

Figures 11, 12, 13; 14, 15 and 16 are enlarged perspective plan views each showing a diiierent modified form of the blade-package carrier.

Figures 17 and 18 are respectively a disassembled enlarged perspective view and a further enlarged central transverse section indicated by the line Iii-l8 of Figure 1'7, of another modified, form of the blade-package carrier. I

Figures 1, 2, 3 and 9 of the accompanying draw ings show a particular form of safety razor with which the device of my invention is specially adapted to co-operate, and in which it is adapted to be embodied.

The illustrated safety razor has a tubular handie member 20 of the normal or usual size as to diameter and length. The free end of this tubular handle is provided with a removable headed screw plug closure 2 l. A solid tapered handle end portion 22 forms a permanent closure for the razor-head end of this tubular handle. 'The re-" duced end of the tapered closure 22 is flat trans versely and hastherein a screw-threaded socket 23. a

The razor head is of normal or usual length but much narrower. It is somewhat narrower than the internal diameter of the tubular handle member 28. The length of the chamber formed within the handle 20 between its end closures 2| and 22 is slightly greater than theglength of the razor head. The razor head has a guard element 24 and a cap element 25. f I Figures 1, 2, 3, and 9 show a double-edged razor blade 26 as interposed between the guard element 24 and cap element 25. Figure 4 shows a similar extra. blade 26. Each of the blades 26-26 is of substantially normal or usual length but is much narrower. As a feature in carrying out my invention in a practical manner, each fresh or unused extra. blade, such as the blade 26 in Figure 4, is individually embodiedin a blade package, as described later.

The guard element 24 has two similar series of guard teeth 21-21 respectively along its opposite margins. This guard element has a flat under surface throughout its extent, inclusive of the guard teeth 21-21. The guard element 24 has a central aperture 28 and spaced outer lugs 29-29and 30-30 along it in alignment.

The razor blade 26 has a longitudinal series of aligned apertures 3|, 32-32, and 33-33,

adapted to register respectively with the guard 5 element aperture 28, lugs 29-29, and 30-30, as

shown in Figure 2, the blade aperture 3| being central.

The cap element is outwardly V-shaped along its length, has a groove 34 running along its under side, and has a laterally flattened central lug 35 which extends from its under side. The end of the lug 35 is, flat and rigidly carries a central screw-threaded stud 36 of less length than the depth of the handle socket 23.

The guard element lugs pass through corresponding apertures of the blade 26 and into the cap element groove 34, the cap element lug 35 passes through the central blade aperture 3| into the central guard element aperture 20, with ferent, in various respects, so far as my presentinvention is concerned.

My present invention particularly relates to blade packagesa'nd a carrier therefor which, together with such packages, is adapted to be integrated into a compact unitary assemblage with a razor head such as described, with such assemblage adapted to be housed within and have its parts maintained in assembled relation by a particular kind of tubular razor-head handle, as shown in'Figure 9.

One form of a blade-package carrier for individually-packaged wrapper covered extra blades is shown in Figures 8 and 9. This bladepackage carrier may be readily formed from suit- 7 able sheet metal. It is of rectangular elongated flattened form.

This carrier has a flat rear wall 39 provided 70 with a; central circular aperture 39, of as great a diameter as the cap stud 36. It has forwardly turned narrower opposed flat parallel side walls 40-40 extended from the rear wall 38 along its length.

A flat front wall parallel with the rear wall 38 aosauo is formed by similar inturned opposed spaced front flanges ll-4| extended respectively from the side walls 40-40 along their length, the width of the space or slot between these flanges being shown as slightly greater than the diameter of the aperture 39.

One end of the carrier is closed by a flat end wall 42 shown as a forwardly-turned flange which extends from the rear wall 38 out to the front wall formed by the flanges 4|4|. The

other end of the carrier is fully open between the edges of its described rear; front and side walls.

The width of the blade-package carrier between the outer faces of its side walls 40-40 and the width of the guard element 24 between the ends of its teeth 21-21 are shown as being the same. The length of the blade-package carrier is substantially the same as or slightly greater than that of the guard element 24 and. is slightly less than the spacing between the inner faces of the cap element end guards 31-31. I

This blade-package carrier is' of an internal width between the opposed inner faces of its side walls 40-40 to be adapted for rather snugly but freely slidably receiving therein a blade package 43, and is of a thickness or depth between the inner face of its rear wall 38 and the inner faces of its wall-forming front flanges 4|-4| to be adapted to receive therein a predetermined number of blade packages 43-43, shown in Figure 9 as'being six in number.

The external thickness of the blade-package carrier, between the longitudinal corners formed by its side walls 40-40, is necessarily limited, by reason of the limited space available within the tubular handle 20, as will be clearly evident later and as is clear from Figure 9.

One of the blade packages 43-43 is particularly shown in Figures 5 and 6., It consists of a described special blade 26 and a specially formed wrapper forming a protective covering therefor; This wrap-per is shown separately in Figure 'l, in a fully open or flat unfolded condition which it may have after it has been removed from a fresh or as yet unused. extra blade, such as the bare blade 26 shown in Figure 4. This wrapper may be of any suitable material, such as relatively thin but tough and firm paper, and it is shown as formed by a single folded sheet ex-- tending transversely around a razor blade 26.

This protective wrapper, forming a covering for the blade 26, has a rear or under side 44, a

front side formed by overlapped thicknesses 0r plies .45 and 46, which are in the form of flaps extended from the rear side 44, and fold turns or bends 4'I and' 48 around the sharp edges of the blade 26 and formed respectively by the folded over inner and outer front side plies 45 and 46. The particular wrapper member shown in the drawings has three circular apertures 49-49-49 through it. These apertures are of the same diameter as the aperture 39 of the carrier, which is the same as the width of the central aperture 3| of the blade 26. These wrapper apertures 49-49-49 are positioned, as shown in Figure 7, so as to be adapted to be aligned with each other and with the central aperture 3| of the blade 26, thus to form ,a central aperture through the blade package 43, as shown in Figures 5, 6, and 9.

The carrier side walls 40-40 form collocating abutments for the edges of the contained flatwiseassembled razor-blade packages 43-43, these blade packages being thus restrained against edgewise shifting movement, the sharp edges of I 75 therein longitudinally.

the blades 24-26 being protected by the wrapper folds or turns 41-43. I

The carrier end wall 42 forms an aligning abutment for the ends of the blade packages 43-43,

with the described central apertures of the latter in alignment with the central aperture 39 of the I carrier. The internal length of the carrier between the inner face of its end closure wall 42 .and the wall edges at its open end is shown as being slightly greater than the length of the blade packages 43-43.

The operation of the above described device of my invention is as follows:-

It is evident that the razor head as a whole may be readily detached or removed from the handle member and reattached thereto. With the razor head detached the described blade-package carrier, together with a supply of the described reserve blade packages 43-43 contained therein,

20 may be mounted upon the assembled razor head merely by passing the stud 3' of the latter through the aperture 33 in the rear wall 33 of the blade package carrier, similarly through the'described central apertures in the blade packages 43-43,

and out between the spaced front flanges "-4! of the carrier, as clearly shown in Figure 9.

It is evident that if desired, the stud 34 may be passed first between the carrier flanges 4l-4I, through the apertured blade packages 43-43, and

flnally out through the aperture 33 in the rear wall 38 of the blade-package carrier. In the first instance, the flat rear wall 38 will rest flatly against and cover the flat under face of the guard element 24,

the flat outer faces of the carrier front flanges 4i-4l will similarly rest flatly against the flat face of the guard element 24. In each instance, the blade-package carrier lies endwise between the ends of the end guard flanges 31-31 of the 40 cap element 25.

It is evident from Figure .9 that the described apertured blade-package carrier, in co-operation with the stud 38, will now function to prevent any relative bodily sliding movement in any direction between the blade-package carrier and the assembled head elements, while at the same time I this stud will lock the describedapertured blade packages 43-43 in the blade-package carrier and prevent their escape therefrom or movement therein.

It is to be noted that the tying together and anchoring of the several parts as the cap element I 25, the guard element 24, the blade-package carrier, and the blade packages 43-43, in a single unitary assemblage, by means of the cap stud 36 and by reason of the described construction of the apertured blade-package carrier and blade packages, greatly facilitates the insertion of the described assemblage into and its removal from within the tubular housing handle 2., as a unit,

and also enables this housing handle 20 to maintain such unit intact.

The described unitary assemblage of razor head parts, blade-package carrier and blade packages, may be readily slid longitudinally into the outer open end of the tubular handle member 2b,

after the closure plug ll of the latter has been removed, and then this closure plug may be replaced upon the tubular handle for securely retaining the described assemblage therein.-

It is to be noted that this housed assemblage has only very slight transverse or lateral looseness within the closed. chamberthus formed within the tubular handle 20, nor'has it much play The transverse fit of this is sufllcientlyclose to while in the second instance 3 assemblage'of parts within the tubular handle 20 their assembled relation, as is clear from Figure 9. The blade-package carrier side walls 40-40 protect the keen -edges of the double-edged blades- 23-26 by preventing the edges of the blade-. packages 43-43froni coming into abutting con tact with the internal face of the tubular handie 20.

' It is tobe noted, "as shown in Figure 8, that the described compact snugly housed assemblage of parts'is positioned within the tubular handle maintain these parts in 5 20 along three lines of abutting contact therein.

The outer V-shaped. corner'of the cap element 25 provides one of these contact lines, while the two external corners of the described flattened rectangular blade-package carrier provide the.

other two contact lines. These contact lines, it will be noted form substantially an equilateral triangle.

The valuable attributes and advantages of the device of my invention are now believed to have been made clearly evident.

The modified form of the blade-package car- I rier shown in Figure 10 is different'frcmthat above described only inthe respect that in this modification a resilient frictionally-acting bladepackage-holding .tongue 50 is struck forwardly from the rear flat wall 38'. This tongue 50 normally, or in the empty condition of the bladepackage carrier shown in Figure 10, is spaced inwardly'or forwardly at its free end from the/rear wall 38'. This tongue 50 has a gradual forward and longitudinally inward inclination from a point in line with the rear wall 38' adjacent to. v the open end of the blade-package .carrier toward a point at the free end of this tongue adjacent to the aperture 38, with the'extreme free end portion of I this tongue inwardly rounded or slightly bent back toward the rear, wall 38', as clearly shown in Figure 10.

Ordinarily, when blade-package carrier, shown in Figures 8 and 9, is completely filled with a fresh supply of blade packages 43-43, as shown in Figure 9, these packageswill fit therein with sumcient friction not to fall out when the carrier is being handled in a detached condition thereof. However, after some ofese blade packages 43-43 have been removed for the use of their contained razor blades 23-26, the friction of the edges of the remaining packages with the opposed side walls 43-40 of the blade-package carrier may not be sufllcient to prevent their dropping "out, or at least becoming displaced toward and beyond the open end of the blade-package carrier, with the described central apertures of the blade packages then out of alignment with the central aperture 33 of the carrier.

In the blade-package carrier construction shownin Figure 10 the resilient tongue 50 is capabie' of yielding rearwardly substantially into alignment witlnthe rear wall 38', so as to allow the carrier to be completely filled with blade packages, similarly as in Figure 9. The spring tongue 50 will press against the rearmost blade- .package near its center and will press all of the interposed blade packages 43-43 forwardly into abutting and frictional engagement with each 4l-4i, while the previously described 1 76 carrier-371 and the remaining fewer number of such packages left in the blade-package carrier will be frictionally retained therein by the pressure of the tongue 66.

In other respects than mentioned the operation of this blade-package carrier of Figure is substantially the same as already described for the blade-package carrier shown in Figures 8 and 9 and its cooperative relation with other parts 10. and features of the complete tially similar.

The modified blade-package carrier shown in Figure 11 is similar to those already described and difiers therefrom by the omission of the end 15 closure wall 42. Thus this modified blade-package carrier-of Figure 11 is fully and freely open at each of its opposite ends.

device is substan- The blade-package-holding tongue 66 shown in Figure 10 has been shown as similarly-embodied in this Figure 11 blade-package carrier. Withthis tongue omitted, its construction would then be similar to the Figure 8 construction, with the omission of the end wall 62.

The modified form of blade-package carrier shown in Figure 12 is similar to that shown in Figure 11. It diilers therefrom in being of openended tubular form, having opposed front and rear fiat parallel walls forming similar topand bottom closures. The top or front wall is shown as formed-by means of inturned flanges 6l-6I,

fers therefrom in being of transversely tubular form, instead of being longitudinally tubular, as 45 in Figure 12. In this Figure 13 form, a top closure wall is shown as formed by means of similar fiat flanges 63-63 turned'inwardly toward each other from opposed end closure walls 62-42 respectively and meeting along a Joint line 66, 50 with a central front aperture 66 on this Joint line in alignment with the rear aperture 69 of the rear closure wall 66. It will-be noted that.

this Figure 13 form of blade-package carrier is fully open along both of its sides longitudinally between the edges of its rear and front closure walls 36 and 66-63, from one to the other ofits end closure walls 62-62.

Figure 14 shows a modified blade-package, carrier of an open box form. It differs from that 60 shown in Figure 8 by having an uninterrupted fiat front wall 66 forming a top closure, similar to the bottom closure formed by its rear wall 36, and shown as turned over transversely from one of its side walls "-46 and as forming a closed 65 Joint 66 with the other side wall 66.

The front wall 66 has a central aperture 36' in alignment with the rear wall aperture 36.

At one of its ends it has an end closure wall 62,

similar to that of Figure 8, its other end being To-fully open between its rear and front closure walls 33 and 66, and between'its side walls 66-46.

It is evident that the blade-package-holding tongue 66 of Figure 10 could be similarly embodied in the Figure 14 form of blade-package The modified blade-package carrier of Figure 15 is also of open box form and difiers from that of Figure 14'by being open along one of its sides instead of atone of its ends.

It has a top closure formed by a front wall 51 having a central aperture 36' in alignment with the central aperture 36- of its rear wall 36 which forms a bottom closure. It has a single side wall 40 connecting together its rear and front walls 36 and 61, and opposed end closure walls 62-42 shown as turned forwardly from its rear wall 36. It is fully and freely open between the edges of itsrear and-front walls 36 and 61 along its side opposite to its side wall 40.

The modified blade-package carrier of Figure 16 differs from that oi Figure 15 by the omission of one of the end closure walls 42-42 of the latter. Thus this blade-package carrier of Figure 16 is open both along one side and at one of its ends.

The modified blade-package carrier shown in Figures 17 and 18 is-of a rectangular elongated flattened box form which is normally closed but which is adapted to be opened, having one of its walls movable to-a fully open position for the insertion and removal of razor-blade packages such as 43-43. This form of blade-package carrier comprises two principal parts. In the particular construction shown one of these parts is a box body having a flat bottom 66, with a central aperture 66, opposed flat parallel side walls 60-66 shown as turned upwardly from the bottom wall 66, and opposed flat parallel end walls 6l-6I, also turned upwardly from the bottom wall 56. These end walls 6l-6i, adjacent to one of the side walls 60-66, are respectively shown as provided with small apertures 62-62, adapted to form hinge bearings.

A top wall or cover 63 has a central aperture 64 which is adapted to be brought into alignment with the aperture 66 of the bottom wall 58. End flanges 66-65 are turned downwardly respectively from the opposite ends of the top wall 63 in parallel relation with each other and are spaced to pass at the outer sides of the box body end walls -6i-6l. Adjacent to one edge of the top wall 66 these flanges 65-65 are respectively provided with small inwardly indented projections 66-66 adapted to form hinge pivots which engage in the apertures 62-62, as shown in Figure 18 and as'indicated in Figure 1'7. These hinge pivots 66-66 are adjacent to the inner face of the top wall 63, while the hinge bearing apertures 62-62 are closely adjacent to the inher face of the box body side wall 60 near its upper edge, which isshown as beveled outwardly I at 61, in order to provide clearance for the adjacent edge portion of the top wall 63, as is clearly shown in Figure 18.

Near their other ends and adjacent to the free edge of the top'wall'63, the lower portions of the top wall flanges 66-66 are shown as provided respectively with inwardly indented rounded projections 66-66, forming releasable catches. Small apertures 66-66 are provided respectively in the box body end. walls 6I-6i, in position for the catches 66-66 to come into alignment therewith respectively and engage therein, as shown in Figure 18.

The upper edge of the body side wall 60, inter- 'mediate of its length and beneath the free edge of the top wall 66, has therein a notch 10 which provides for the easy release of the top cover wall", allowing the latter then to be swung to its fully open position shown by broken lines in Figure 18.

Itis evident that different hinge means could be provided for the cover wall 63, or that either this cover wall or one of the other walls of the normally closed box, could be otherwise movable to an open position.

The cover wall 63 is shown as provided with a blade-holding tongue 50, similar to that shown in Figure 10, and which, inthe normally closed condition of the box, functionsto prevent loose or unrestrained movement of blade-packages 43-43 during the handling of the blade-package carrier, bypressing such blade packages against the bottom wall 58, the releasable catches 6868 functioning to hold the cover wall or box v lid 63 in its closed position.

It is obvious that various modifications may be made in the constructions shown in the drawings and above particularly described, within the principle and scope of my invention as defined in the appended claims.

I do not specifically limit myself as to materials, size, shape, proportions, arrangement, re-' lationship, number of parts, or inconsequential details, these being given simply as a means for clearly describing the device of my invention.

What I claim ls:- l. A mercantile unit comprising a holder and a plurality of razor'blades stacked therein, said holder being constructed with at least two opposed walls and with at least one other wall connesting said opposed walls, means retaining said blades in said holder, at least one of said walls being provided with an opening in alignment with apertures in said blades and of such size and shape as to receive and embrace a razor-head stud, whereby a razor-head may be appliedto said holder and its stacked blades to form an integral package and adapted when said stud is thus inserted to prevent the removal of said blades from said package.

2. A mercantile unit comprising a holder and one other wall connecting said opposed walls,

said holder, at least one. of said walls being proa plurality of removable wrapped razor blades stacked. therein, said holder being constructed with at least two opposed walls and with at least vided with an opening in alignment with apertures in said blades and said wrappers and of such size and shape as to receive and embrace a razor head stud, whereby a razor-head may be applied to said holder and its stacked blades and said wrappers to form an integral package and adapted when said stud is thus inserted to prevent the removal of said blades and said wrappers from said package.

3. A mercantile unit comprising a holder and a plurality of razor blades stacked therein, said holderbeing constructed with a bottom wall, two

opposed side walls, and two spaced top wall members extending inwardly toward each other from said side wall, said bottom wall being provided with an opening in alignment with apertures in said blades and of such size and shape as to receive and embrace a razor-head stud, whereby a razor-head may be applied to said holder and its stacked blades to form an integral package and adapted when said stud is thus inserted .to prevent the removal of said blades from said package.

4. A mercantile unit comprising a holder and a plurality of razor blades stacked therein, said holder being constructed with .a bottom wall, a 7

top wall, and two opposed side walls connecting said bottom wall with said topwall, said bottom wallbeing provided with an opening in alignment with apertures in said blades and of such size and shape as to receive and embrace a razor-head stud, whereby a razor-head may be-applied to said holder and its stacked blades to form an integral package and adapted when said stud is thus inserted to prevent the removal of said blades from said package.

SIDNEY 1'1. BENJAMIN; 

